Dogma in Religion and Creeds in the Church |
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Author:
| Kinross, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-82757-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE CHURCH As already remarked, some dogmas relate to matters which are, in themselves, difficult to understand, and still more difficult to express in language; others relate to matters which involve no such difficulty. If precision of statement and complete apprehension of what is stated, had...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE CHURCH As already remarked, some dogmas relate to matters which are, in themselves, difficult to understand, and still more difficult to express in language; others relate to matters which involve no such difficulty. If precision of statement and complete apprehension of what is stated, had been the chief aim of our Lord's discourses and of his apostles' letters, the Gospels and Epistles would have been very different from what they are. If every pin in the tabernacle is of supreme importance we should expect some clear indications as to how each one is to be distinguished and have its proper place in the Church of God. If failure to connect ourselves with the true Church of Christ deprives us of inestimable privileges and exposes us to great spiritual dangers, we should think that there would have been clearer indications in Scripture of what the Church is, than those we find here. If there is no salvation beyond the pale of that church, it might be expected that, if we have a revelationfrom God at all, it would be clearly manifested what the true Church is, and how it is to be recognised. Mr Gore makes the affirmation that it is becoming increasingly difficult to believe in the Bible without believing in the Church. It is possible that this may be explained satisfactorily, but much depends upon what is understood by the Church; very often when used by a member of the Anglican, Greek, or Roman Church, it denotes his own. By what grounds of reason and Scripture can his own be included and the others excluded ? Still more how can these three be included, and all Protestant Churches be excluded ? The exclusive claims to recognition as the Church of Christ, of any one of these organizations mentioned, or of any other, is utterly baseless, and on any other s...